Director of Youth Services Linda Schuster gives a tour of the T.B. Scott Library in Merrill to home-schooled children and their parents Monday.

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Carolyn Tiry
Daily Herald Media

The T.B. Scott Library in Merrill for the first time Monday hosted a library orientation for home-schooled children to show them how to use the library as a resource in their learning.

The orientation is based on one the library has done for years for students in public and parochial schools, said Linda Schuster, director of the library's youth services department. Offering the service for home-schooled kids is an idea she has had in the back of her mind for two or three years, she said, and the opening of the Bridges Virtual Academy in fall 2012 as a charter school in the Merrill Area Public School ...